Re: (TFT) Half-Hex Corridors

["David O. Miller" <davidomiller@verizon.net>]

Hey Rick. The problem with the corridor shown on the Cardboard Heros  
dungeon was that the hallway was one full hex, then two half hexes,  
then one full hex, then two half hexes, etc. That just doesn't make  
any sense at all. It should be one full hex, one full hex, one full  
hex, etc. Why, taking your system just as an example, should a guy  
standing in a hallway get full DX and the guy standing right next to  
him, in the same straight hallway, get a -2 to his DX.? That was the  
main problem with the hexes as depicted on their site (and perhaps why  
I was harsh).

As for gaming with miniature figures they just don't fit into half  
hexes. Here's a link to a thread on the Heroscapers site that will  
give you an idea of what I'm talking about. You'll have to scroll down  
the page a bit to see the images. In this case the half hexes along  
the short walls are simply ignored.

http://www.heroscapers.com/community/showthread.php?s=b7cb1f65a3789b65654a1fb53610caeb&t=2064&page=2

I might add that that is an older designed room. Since then I make  
sure that all of the rooms I put together have a full hex in each  
corner, not a half hex as shown. To make that work all rooms have to  
be an odd number of hexes wide, measuring across the hex grain.  
Modeling it in this fashion you assure that a figure can occupy a  
corner of any room. The example that I link to above is incorrect.

David O. Miller



On Mar 12, 2009, at 1:59 AM, Rick Smith wrote:

> Hi David, everyone.
> A bit harsh?  I use half hexes as crowded hexes at
> a -2 DX penalty.  A corridor of hexes and half hexes
> is topologically the same as a one hex wide corridor
> running along the hex grain.
>
> Just saying I wouldn't have any trouble using such
> a thing in my campaign.
>
> Warm regards, Rick
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